THRUST in a Sentence

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223 example sentences for THRUST, such as:

1. She thrust the money into his hand.
2. She thrust past him angrily and left.
3. They thrust themselves into the house.
4. Her chin was thrust forward aggressively.
5. She thrust her hands deep into her pockets.

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 Meanings and Examples of THRUST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
thrust
 n.  push; force used in pushing ; activity or idea is the main or essential thing it expresses
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Then the baby, Caro, thrust her fist out over the coverlet and the furry bear was jerked overboard.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
2  It was cow language presumably, for the parti-coloured cow, who had thrust her head in at the door lowered her horns, lashed her tail and ambled off.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
3  They would never have thrust themselves in--had they known it was this afternoon.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
4  She thrust her suit case in at the scullery window and walked on, till at the corner she saw the red curtain at the bar window.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
5  They saw it but for a glimpse, for the window was instantly thrust down; but that glimpse had been sufficient, and they turned and left the court without a word.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW
6  The champions were therefore prohibited to thrust with the sword, and were confined to striking.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  The poor Jew had been hastily thrust into a dungeon-vault of the castle, the floor of which was deep beneath the level of the ground, and very damp, being lower than even the moat itself.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  As she passed through the crowd, her arms folded and her head depressed, a scrap of paper was thrust into her hand, which she received almost unconsciously, and continued to hold without examining its contents.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  Higg was about to be thrust out by the compassion of the warders, who were apprehensive lest his clamorous grief should draw upon them reprehension, and upon himself punishment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  She lay still, feeling his motion within her, his deep-sunk intentness, the sudden quiver of him at the springing of his seed, then the slow-subsiding thrust.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
11  That thrust of the buttocks, surely it was a little ridiculous.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  It might come with the thrust of a sword in her softly-opened body, and that would be death.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
13  But it came with a strange slow thrust of peace, the dark thrust of peace and a ponderous, primordial tenderness, such as made the world in the beginning.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
14  Now all her body clung with tender love to the unknown man, and blindly to the wilting penis, as it so tenderly, frailly, unknowingly withdrew, after the fierce thrust of its potency.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
15  Don't thrust your illusions on other people.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence:
1  Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
2  The thrust of his argument was that change was needed.
3  He thrust the baby into my arms and ran off.
4  She thrust her hands deep into her pockets.
5  Her chin was thrust forward aggressively.
6  He tends to thrust himself forward too much.
7  She thrust the money into his hand.
8  She thrust past him angrily and left.
9  They thrust themselves into the house.
10  The main thrust is to make progress on practical issues - with mutual trade and business at the top of the agenda.
11  Although it was filmed from a distance, the roar as it thrust upwards was clearly audible.
12  The main thrust of the new government wasn't a secret so there's little here that will cause shock waves.
13  Unwilling to injure his opponent in such a pointless clash, Dartagnan simply tried to parry his rival's thrusts.